this just inyou are looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot there. that is the world trade center and we have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one of the tors of the world trade center. t ♪ where were you when the world stopped turning ♪ ♪ that september day ♪ teaching a class full of innocent children ♪ ♪ or driving down some cold interstate ♪ >> larry: tonight, one simple

question, ma life changing answers. where were you on september 11th, 2001? ♪ call up your mother and tell her you love her ♪ ♪ did you dust off that bible at home♪ >> larry: next on "larry king weekend." ♪ where were you when the world stopped turning on that september day ♪ >> larry: thanks for joining us. we begin a very special week of coverage with a very different show tonight. as anyone who watches this program knows, my interviews usually involve a lot of different questions on a lot of different topics. tonight we're asking only one thing. where were you on september 11th? the answers, as you'll hear, are as individual as the people giving them.om some come from those who experienced 9/11 terror firsthand, others people who watched events unfold from a distance, caught up in grief. stories of personal and in the case of defense secretary

rumsfeld, a little prophetic. you re right here when the pentagon -- >> i was. >> larry: and someone told me you had spoken to a congressional delegation. >> right here in this room. >> larry: in this room about terrorism that morning? >> i said i had an 8:00 breakfast -- that sometime in the next two, four, six, eight, ten, 12 months there would be an event that would occur in the world that would be sufficiently shocking that it would remind people again how important it is to have a strong, healthy defense department that contributes -- that underpins peace and stability in our world, and that is what underpins peace and stability is the fact we can't have healthy economies anactive lives unless we live in a peaceful, stable world. and i said that to these people. and someone walked in and hande the note and said that a plane had just hit the world trade center. and we adjourned the meeting and i went in to get the cia h briefing right next door here

and the whole building shook within 15 minutes. and it was a jarring thing. >> larry: and you ran toward the smoke? >> mm-hmm. >> larry: becae? >> oh, goodness. who knows? i wanted to see what had happened. i wanted to see if people needed help. and went downstairs and helped for a bit with some people on stretchers. and then i came back up here and started to realize i had to get back up here and get at it. >> i was in lima, peru, with the president of peru, at breakfast. we were having a meeting talking about economic issues, talking about how he wanted a better trading relationsh with the united states, when the notes came in. i got my note just a little before he was being handed a note. and when i saw the note and realized there were two planes -- d? >> larry: that's what it said? >> it said two planes, first a

jet and a prop plane. the first report is a little off. when i saw it was two, immediately said it wasn't an accident. it had to be a terrorist incident. and then within a few moments other notes came in and the magnitude of the disaster was obvious and our meeting was about to finish. i was in peru for an organization of the american states meeting to pass a charter of democracy for the western misphe. and so i went to that meeting while my plane was being readied. i canceled the rest of my trip. while my plane was being readied i went to that meeting and received the condolences from all of my colleagues in the organization of american states, 34 nations, and then they rose and applauded and we, by unanimity endorsed this charter for democracy as they responded to the terrorists. >> i was flying to milwaukee, wisconsin, and -- >> larry: you were on an airplane? >> we were on an airplane,

landed, refueled, and came back to washiton, d.c. we were one of the planes that came back with a fighter escort landing in a setting that was very troublesome. i could see the smoke from the pentagon from about 50 miles out. and it was a very distressing thing, obviously. it's not nearly as distressing for me to ha witnessed that as it wasor the people and the families whose lives were destroyed in that attack. but it obviously is very disconcerting to return to this city in a setting where the kind of attack which had been launched on america was still under way. >> i was in senator kennedy's office. i had gone over to brief the education committee on the results of a summit i had had earlier in the summer about early childhood education. actually i heard as i got in the car about the first plane but, of course, we thought then it

was maybe some strange accident and then by the time we heard about the second plane, i was there in his off lice. >> larry: did they rush you ght back to get you -- >> no, we stayed there, actually, for a long time. it was he and senator gregg me in, are who was also on the education committee. of a very different mind than the president's. we stayed there for quite some time until we got the word that they were evacuating the capitol as well as the white house. .> larry: interesting a kennedy and a bush together. >> i know it. exactly. and i thought about that at the time, of course. i knew how he had been so -- our whole country was so impacted by his brother's death, but how personally that that must have been for him and then to be with him on such a day. >> i spent that day down in the emergency operation center, the president's center down under ?he white house. >> larry: is that colin's bunker?

>> no, it's a word i use, the peoc. >> larry: and who was there? >> dick. i went down with him. condi ce was there most of the day. people came in and out. the fbi had -- the cia had dropped in and out. we were tinelevision contact with different offices. >> larry: lynne,ow man different moods -- rage, anger -- what was going on? >> at the time everyone was just cool and professional. >> larry: really? >> yes. of course there were gasps when the towers went down, but, really, so little display of wa emotion in that room and it was exactly right that there wasn't. i have since, though, had a chance to look at some photographs that were taken ands people have the most devastated looks on their faces. >> larry: where were you when you heard of the first crash?

>> i was in the city and i got a call to turn on the television. there was a plane hit the world trade center and then i saw the second one and immediately called the white house. and spoke with the president a o very short period of time and urged him to shut down the airspace around new york and they immediately shut down the airspace around the country. who knows what else may have happened if the president hadn't taken that step.>> >> when i first found out about it, i was just finishing a breakfast at the peninsula hotel in midtown, manhattan. i was notified that there was -- th something had struck the world trade center. and the first notificationas it was a twin-engine plane. so we rushed down -- we rushed down to the trade center and on the way down we found out that it was a large plane and while we were going down the second plane hit, and maybe about three

minus before we got there, and i realized at that point that it was a terrorist attack when the second plane hit. when i have time i reflect on it and look at thdevastation and just a minute ago as i was walking in here i said to someone, i can't believe someone actually did this to new york city, to our city. how could they attack two buildings and we have 5,000 to 6,000 people missing? that's one of the largest military attacks in history. >> what's the situation right now? >> the situation is that two airplanes have attacked apparently -- wh? all right. let's go north then. >> do you know what happened? >> come with us. come with us. i didn't miss premium payment for 10 years. the minute i got sick, i lost my insurance.

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we understand that a plane has crashed into the world trade center. >> larry: pictures no one will ever forget, particularly not the people who reported the events of september 11th were stunned and terrified the nation. following a summer when chandra levy dominated headlines, the 9/11 attacks gave american journalists a renewed sense of purpose. >> we are getting ready to sign off, charlie and i, and in our ear they say those words, hold on a second, and then the next thing they say, it appears a plane may have crashed into the world trade center and we did exactly whatverybody in the country did, i think, watching it, you enter this state of sort of csecutive denials and you think, well, it must have been a tragicccident by an amateur pilot. and then you see the next plane coming, well, that must be a fire retardant plane, no, no, a plane coming to helpand it takes a long time to compute that this is the thing we have never seen before and we had a wonderful rerter on the air

from the scene itself and he said this is the sound of shrieking like a missile. this is like a plane being used as a missile. and we knew. we knew. >> i think in many ways people are always keen to know what oue own personal feelings were at the time. i think in some respects that people like us at moments like that are protected somewhat from having emotional reactions because you're so focused and working so hard. >> larry: does it set in later? >> yes. but in that week it set in. it came and went. for me there was one very tough moment in thmiddle of the day, i turned around and there was a en saying om my chil they called, my son goes to school in california and my daughter to school in massachusetts. and i just lost loit. in fact, i even lose it sometimes telling the story and i turned around to the audience and i said, now we all have to talk to our children. you must call your children. and that was the only moment that i just thought, hey, get it together, jennings. you're losing it here.

so we have four major commercial aircraft which have been ccidents or eith violence today. >> i remember it was such a beautiful day. it was clear and crisp and it was election day in new york. so running through the lobby i said to somebody, one of my neighbors, did you hear what happened? he said, the election is not over already, is it? i said, no, a plane hit. the second plane, and i heard the account of that happening, and it was a reporter th i knew on radio and he was describing it as an airliner and other people at washington square park were describing the low flyover, and i knew that we we -- then had been a terrorist attacked. >> larry: did you know the world had changed? >> i knew the world had changed. >> just beginning for it to sink in what we are going through and we are just halfway through this day. >> larry: how far do you live from where you work? >> well, 20 nutes.

it took me about 12 minutes that morning. >> larry: and what was that ride like? >> well, i was listening to the radio, taking telephone calls, and i could see when i came to r our broaast center between en 10th and 11th avenue and 10th avenue i did a stop to take a look and couldn't see much. could see smoke coming out and also traffic was beginning to stack up and people were f beginning to come back from that area not yet in great waves but as any reporter would say, this is huge. this is really huge. and then for about three nano seconds i thought, wow, dan, the best thing is to get right to the heart of the story. and i thought about going down. i thought, no, i'd bauetter get inside because there will be a lot of anchoring to do. the word of the day is steady.re yes, there have been some terrible things happening, but until and unless we know the o facts, it's very difficult t draw many conclusions. >> it was very strange.

at one point i wrote a note to charlie gibson, he had done something, and i wrote a note commending him and he said, isn't it great to be back in the news business again?e ist it terrible the reason we are? >> larry: do you remember your first thoughts >> you just knew that something horrible had happened. >> larry: you were numb, right? this is not possible.e and then it's bad enou to see it but then to see that building coming down and not even being able to imagine how are they getting out? what are they doing? what is happening? and to have to report it, i thought e anchors of all of the networks, cnn, everybody, they just did a fantastic job keeping everybody -- as much abreast as we could. >> i was in my office, west 57th street. we have a window that looks directly south.

we could not actually see the building but we could see the smoke and everything. >> larry: do you remember what your first thoughts were? >> well, i thought it was a plane that had -- a small plane that somebody had lost control of. it didn't occur to me it was a terrorist attack.pl >> larry: when the second plane went in obviously -- >> became immediately apparent. >> larry: did you realize then ? that this world is upside-down? well, i'm not a quick realizer of things like that. >> larry: you were slow. well, what did you think? >> i just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb, and thought how horrible it was. i had the grand aspects of it did not occur to me. >> i was iflorence the day, september 11th. we got back here as fast as we could. the first plane out was the following sunday.ar >> larry: what was it like f you to come back to new york? >> well, we came back and we had a personal experience.

we have an apartment down by the united nations that overlooks e the east river and looks downtown. noally you could barely see a corner of the world trade buildings down there. when we came back we could just see a great cloud of smoke and in the eveni the red glow of fire still burning. we opened our windows, the apartment had been closed r the day, we had to shut them instantly. the fumes were so bad and we were probably three miles north. >> larry: wow. >> it was not pleasant. >> off the island right now. >> right now they're walking. a lot of people are getting up to the bridges and they're walking over the 59th street bridge, walking over the brooklyn bridge. >> long island railroad, we need service. new jersey.an we want to get to new jersey, folks. go to 34th and 1 the javits center.

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it's just hard even to contemplate the utter carnage and terror which has engulfed so many innocent people. >> it is with enormous emotion france has just learned of these monsous attacks. there is no other word, th at has struck the united states of america. >> in this most difficult hour, all israelis stand as one with the american people. ♪ >> larry: tonight we're aski one question, where were you on 9/11? some of the most dramatic he answers ha come from the many world leaders we've talked with,

leaders present and past. where were you on 9/11, mr. president? >> australia. e but i had an unusual experience because my former staff member cheryl mills was in cheryl's office with a full view. they called meetween the time of the first tower was hit and the time the second tower was hit and talked me through it. >> larry: were you watching it, too?bu >> i later turned it on but i was downtown in port douglas where i had taken my family after the '96 election. >> larry: did you come right back? >> i did. the white house was kind enough to give me military transport and i left the next day and got home as quickly as i could. >> larry: what goes through the mind, the immediate former president watching this? >> i remember exactly what happened. bruce lindsesaid to me on the phone, my god, a second plane has hit the tower, the second tower. i said, bin laden did this. that's the first thing i said. he said, how can you be sure? i said because oy bin laden

and the iranians could set up a network to do this and they wouldn't do it because they have a country and targets bin laden. >> larry: did you think at the same time we came pretty close to getting him? >> yeah. i thought that my virtual obsessiowith him was well faced and i was full of regret that i didt get him. i immediately thought that he had done it. >> i was in the air over nova scotia when we first heard the news. >> larrywhat did you do? where were you going? >> coming to the united states i was actually coming to los angeles and we were going to see the president a few days after that and then up to the united nations security council. and it didn't dawn on us right away. a plane had gone into the building. we didn't realize the extent. and i remember going to the cockpit and turning on thebc world service and began to slightly dawn on us the extent of the catastrophe. and we headed home. we realizeit was not the right time to burden the american administration with another guest. >> i was literally just about to

give a speech.waou i was about to address our trade union congress, and it's one of those moments you will never forgethe were and at you were doing at the time. and i just watched it with a sense of shock and disbelief, frankly.ar >> larry: did you know there rewe that many britishers in that building? >> we didn't know, larry, for sure. it was obvious because it was a major financial center there would be british people there and, in fact, the numbers of british people killed make it the worst terrorist incident in terms of british peoplate's bee. >> of course when i saw this incident on the television, saw the flames coming from one of the towers, i couldn't believe it.heni at the beginning i thought maybe something, a dream. after some time changed the

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today we've had a national tragedy. two airplanes have crashed into the world trade center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country.

freedom was attacked by a faceless coward and freedom will be defended. and i pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in psalm 23.ev even though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i fear no evil for you are with me. >> larry: welcome back. tonight just one question on "larry king weekend" where were you on 9/11? in awering, i guess it's inevitable some of the peoe ma would make comparisons to another terrible day still etched in our memories. where were you that morning? >> i was at home in new york. >> larry: do you rember was the television on? >> yes, it was, and then i think i was on the phone with my husband. >> larry: was he anywhere near there? >> not too near.

>> lar: you've lived with shock your life, literally. your life has been a series of shocks. what was that like for you? >> i think everybody just obviously was just horrified and i thk that the loss was so hi overwhelming but i think it did bring people together and that was something that that was really an extraordinary thing. >> to tell you the truth, the first thing i thought, larry, was what i thought when i was in dallas and john kennedy was killed. i thout i've got to get home. whatever home means to you, youi instinct is that i've got to gee to the place where i feel safe, where i feelkn protected, where ow there are people who love me, and the more i thought about it, in reality america is my home. i've always thought of home as being that little country place

where i grew up. but the reality is that this whole nation means so much to us, and we don't really think about it or reale it until something happens like that travesty on 9/11. >> i was on my way for aittle physical checkup at walter reed army hospital in washington. i just walked out the door of the apartment building. i live in watergate south. and the door man h said there had been a plane flown into a building in new york. i said, well, that's a terrible thing. we didn'know the enormity of it until we arrived at the hospital and i learned more about it and the second plane and it's sort of like other days that will be etched in our memory forever. this is certainly an imptant one. >> actually we were in beaver creek at our home up in colorado. and my husband had gone out to swim.

and came back from the pool and normally we don't have television on in the morning, only in the evening when we're watching "larry king." but the television was on and i heard all this noise and racket and i quick turned -- i was upstairs and i quick turned the television on to see what ed happened and i couldn't figure out where it was. i knew this was a terrible tragedy but i didn't know where it was. >> larry: how was the president? >> he was just totally stunned. he couldn't believe this could happen in our country. this like the most remote and medieval state of india, doing a story. >> larry: was daniel with you? >> yes. >> larry: how did you hear about it? >> well, we were coming back from this march following a

disciple of ghandi who was in the most dangerous area of india, just walking and having all these villags sfoowiking him. >> larry: you like stuff like this, huh? >>ell, and then we went back to the hotel and put thev on and like in the middle age there and we just collapsed. >> larry: did daniel immediately get on the phone, got to go cover this? >> yeah, yea oh, yeah. afghanistan was not exactly part of his beat but pakistan was. larry: back with more of where re you on 9/11. i got into one of the best schools in the country!

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>> larry: we're back on this ninth anversary of t 9/11 tragedy. here is more of "where were you?" tell us the situation on september 11th. give us the situation regarding you and thatuilding.ff >> well, we had an office on the

101st floor part of cantor fitzrald and has been very good for children for many yearn now and to children in crisis in milan and in london. i was just cicoming out of the "good morning america" studios d and looked up and johnny, my assistant, said an airplane has gone into our office. i said it simply wasn't possible. and then i realized, of course, it was a terrorist attack and then i just, like, couldn't believe it because we lost many friends in the building. >> larry: so the television is on, you are eing the buildings both in disaster mode and you're as king to your wife who h just been hijacked? >> yes. >> larry: and she says? >> she says we've just been hijacked. she told me they did not know she was making this phone call. she told me that she had been herded to the back of the plane, they were using knives and box cutters to hijack the plane.

she mentioned that the pilot had announced the plane had been hijacked, i believe she said that. and she -- i had to tell her about the two airplanes that had hit the worltrade nter. >> larry: why? >> i just felt that i had to. i had to tell her. >> i was walking out the door to go to the grocery store and the phone rang and it was a friend asking if he was okay and where he was. she knew he was flying that morning. i had no idea what she was talking about. she told me and, of course, like every american i was just shocked and knew the day wasn't going to turn out anything like i expected and just glued to the tv. >> larry: so the second plane hit.i >> the second plane hit and i still hadn't hi ave any thoughty was involved. i wanted to talk to him. >> larry: were they giving you flight information then? >> i didn't know what flight he

was on. i knew he was going to san francisco. the crash in pennsinylvaa came on the tv and at that point i was very concerned. i knew that was the direction that his flight would have been going and the timing was about right. initially they said it was a flht bound to chicago, so i thought, okay, we're o the hook with that one. and a few minutes later they came back on and said it was on led >> larry: did you know then? >> i knew immediately and i was standing behind the couch looking at the tv and i just remember, i yelledno! and my friend was there. i said, you know, it's okay. maybe he's on a different flight. we don't know anything yet. i said, no, this is his flight. and i had already seen the picture and i knew that no one was walking away from that plane. >> larry: lisa beamer's husband, todd, was one of the heroes of flight 93. we haven't heard about some of the other victims and we want to remember them and the people they left behind.

>> he worked long hours and e-mail was a good way for us to just kind of touch each other in the day. and i sent him an e-mail at 8:47 and within the subject line it said ily nt, i love you, no text. i had to tell him i was thinking about him at that minute. i n't know why. i turned on the tv and saw what haened. my 3-year-old son saw me and said, what's wrong? i'm just really glad the last week of his life was with his kids. and i sat them down and said daddy is not coming home. daddy died. i don't know how old your kids have to be, but thhaat has to b the hardest thing. k! smack! sma] [ male announcer ] your favorite foods fighting you? fight back fast with tums. calcium rich tums goes to work in seconds. nothing works fastm . ♪ tum ta tum tum tums

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he was respectful, intelligent, courteous, caring, always went out of his way for you. my sister, maria, got in touch with james twice. she asked him, where was he? he was on the 105th floor. sister asked him if he was alone. no, i'm not alone.pl there's lot of people here. they were stuck. and at the same time that my younger sister and i were running for our lives, my younger brother, james cartier, 26 years old, was losing his. there's no closure. there's nothing. there's a giant void, an emptiness that will never, eve be filled. >> larry: tonight asking just onquestion, where were you on september 11th? many entertainers make careers out of playing out dramas. on 9/11 they watched with us all as a horrific drama was being played out in real life. >> i was near montreal.

i was at my parents' place. >> larry: were they up? >> we were up and we were watching television. and of couke erse lirybody else -- >> larry: was the baby with you. >> no, the baby was sleeping. and like everybody else we thought it was a nightmare, and it is a nightme, but we thought it was not real. we got very nervous about what we were seeing on television anr i started to cry and i said, i can't believe how we can raisen children in this world. a i ran downstairs and looked at my son sleep. i came back up and i said, answered to myself, i know why. >> it was the first day of my son's preschool. i was asleep a was quickly awakened by it and watching tv like everyone else. >> larry: what were your first thoughts? >> yeah, just couldn'tel bieve it. i just couldn't believe it. just cldn't.

just impossiblto believe. >> larry: did the boy go to school? >> yes, he did. did i tell him about it? absolutely not. >> larry: what do you think of the aftermath of it, all that's gone on? >> well, it's an amazing time in american history, it really is. there's a part of us, all of us, that are so proud of new york ty and people in washington and w they've reacted, of the community feeling, but also this horrible feeling that we in some ways are like these autiful enar children that are kept from really seeing at's out there. >> i was in my house here in a. l.a. and woke up with the kids. >> larry: the kids? >> yeah. >> larry: and did they see it when you saw it? >> yes, they did. >> larry: reaction?

>> they didn't understand. they didn't quite get it. so i just, with everything going on, you said they're safe, that they're going to bokay and, you know, not to worry about it. we just kept them away from the television. y they're young kids. we kept them away from the television and talked about there are some very bad people d in the world and not a lot of them, not a lot of bad people in the world. >> larry: what did tom cruise think? >> i was fious. >> larry: angry? >> i was so angry. i was absolutely furious. >> larry: when we come back, an appropriate close for tonight's show, allen jackson performs in concert "where were you when the world stopped turng?" ♪ going faster than a roller coaster ♪

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>> larry: alan, how did you come to write "where were you when the world stopped turning"? >> larry, it just came out of nowhere in the middle of the night. i played a show earlier that night. i flew home and i was laying in d. at 3:00 in the morning i woke up and the chorus was literally running through my head, the melody and the lyrics. i got in my underwear, went downstairs and put it on a little digitalecorder so i knew if i didn't, i'd forget it by morning and wrote down -- i mean, i recorded some of the verse as well and got up the next day and finished writing

the verses for the song. it was just a gift from god, i believe. >> larry: and when you perform it, as we'll see in a minute, are the crowd reactions always the same? is this a real emotional occurrence? >> yes, it's a very moving part of the show. it's really a difficult song to mix in -- it changes the whole mood of the show. i had to really kind of rethink my show schedule when we started doing the song live in concert wi the crowd reaction is always amazing. it's very emotional and uplifting. it's a little nervous for me, it mos as we. >> larry: tonight you're in burgettstown, pennsylvania, weern pennsylvania, not far from where that flight went down on 9/11. that's going to add something for tonight, isn't it? >> i know and i had the opportunity to sing on the streets of new york and it was really moving to be there where

the towers were and this is the first time i've played this close to the crash site, as far as i know. people sometimes tend to forget about the pentagon and where this plane went down and i try to remember that was as well a big part of that tragedy. >> lry: alanwe wish you the best of continued success. good luck with the album "drive" and thanks for closing the show for us tonight. >> larry, thanks again for having us. we appreciate it. we'll see you on cnn. >> larry: you're a good man. we're in the song, too. here is alan jackson to close it out singing "where were you" and he's on age in burgettstown, pennsylvania. ♪ where were you when the world stopped turning ♪ ♪ that september day ar ♪ you in your yard with your wife and children ♪ ♪ working on some stage in>> ♪ did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke

♪ ♪ rising against that blue sky t ♪ did you shout out in anger and fear for your neighbor ♪n ♪ or did you just sit down and cry ♪ ♪ did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones ♪ ♪ pray for the ones who don't know ♪ ♪ did you rejoice for the people sobbed for the ones left below ♪ ♪ did you burst out with pride for the red,hite and blue ♪ ♪ the heroes who died just doing what they do ♪ ♪ did you look up to heaven for some kind of answer ♪ ♪ look at yourself wondering f ♪ i'm just a singer of simple songs ♪ ♪ i'm not a real political man

♪ i watch cnn but i'm not sure i can tell you the difference in iraq and iran ♪ ♪ but i know jesus and i talk to god ♪ ♪ and i remember this when i was young ♪ ♪ faith, hope, and love are some good things he gave us ♪ ♪ the greatest is love ♪ where were you when the world stopped turning that september day ♪ ♪ teaching a class ll of innocent children ♪n ♪ driving down some old interstate ♪ ♪ did you feel guilty bause you're a survivor ♪ ♪ in a crowd room did you feel alone ♪ ♪ did you call up your mother and tell her you loved her ♪ ♪ did you dust off that bible at home ♪

♪ did you open your eyes hoping it never happened ♪ ♪ close your eyes and not go to sleep ♪ ♪ did you notice the sun set the first time in ages ♪ ♪ speak to some stranger on the street ♪ ♪ did you lay down at night andh think of tomorrow ♪ ♪ go out and buy you a gun ♪ did you turn off that violent movie you were watching ♪ ♪ turn on "i love lucy" reruns ♪ did you go to church and hold hands with some stranger ♪ ♪ stand in line and give your own blood ♪ ♪ did you just stay home and ing tighto your family ♪ ♪ thank god you had somebody to love ♪ ♪ i'm just a singer of simple songs ♪l ♪ i'm not a real political man

♪ i watch cnn but i'm not sure y can ll you the difference in iraq and iran ♪ i ♪ but i know jesus and i talk to god ♪ ♪ and i remember this from wh i was young ♪ ♪ faith, hope and love are some good things he gave us ♪ ♪ and the greatest is love ♪ i'm just a singer osimple songs ♪ ♪ i'm not a real political man ♪ i watch cnn but i'm not sure i can tell you the difference in iraq and iran ♪ ♪ but i know jesus and i talk to god ♪ ♪ and i remember this from when i was young ♪ ♪ faith, hope and love are some good things he gave us ♪